Speakout 2/18

Does anyone know someone who can install mini-blinds for a disabled person? Please leave a phone number in the paper and I will get in touch with you because I need them put up as soon as possible.

I think it's pretty sad and pathetic to turn the news on only to hear about how some employer fired people who smoke! These smokers did not smoke on work grounds, nor in work vehicles. What they do on their own time, is their own business. Just because an employer signs or stamps a paycheck, it does not entitle him to control our lives outside the workplace. Tobacco is legal and always will be. There's too much money in it for it to just vanish. Just as with alcohol! I know a lot of lawyers in this town and other "higher-ups" who have wine or a drink with their lunches. Now, that is doing more wrong to a company than smoking any cigarette at your own home would do. While having that drink at lunch, you go back to work and forget what you are doing and then you want to blame someone else because you don't know what else to do. It alters your perception to the degree you would fall asleep at your desk because you can't think straight or focus on anything going on around you, not to mention, you put everyone around you in jeopardy. And then, while going back to work you put countless numbers of lives at stake when you get in your car to drive back to work. I think a lot of these employers have really gotten a big head! If it weren't for us "employees" you wouldn't be an employer and I think a lot of you employers need to start remembering that! I think we should all stand up to our employers and this behavior from them would stop. When they have no workers making their checking accounts grow, maybe then they'll have to take a 10-hour job and take crap from an employer just like they dished out to others. People seem to forget the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Just because you are an employer doesn't give you the right to forget the Golden Rule, or mean you don't have to abide by it. It doesn't mean you can invade a person's privacy just because you sign their paycheck. It doesn't mean you can fire them if they smoke while at home.